The Oak Door: A fiery rebirth for a Tokyo heavyweight
The Oak Door is back in action. For the past 15 years, the Grand Hyatt's flagship restaurant has been a Tokyo fixture, a monument to man-sized steaks, heavyweight wines and power dining. That was until a chimney fire in early 2017 necessitated a year-long ...
Grand Hyatt kitchen fire prompts evacuation at Roppongi Hills; no one injured
A fire broke out at the Grand Hyatt Tokyo in Roppongi Hills on Sunday, prompting about 200 people to evacuate. An oven at a steak house on the hotel's sixth floor caught fire at around 7:30 p.m., damaging about 10 sq. meters of its ceiling ...
Inspired fashion: from Marie Antoinette nail art to '60s textiles to Wong Kar Wai movies
Marimekko's colorful past This year, Finnish textiles and fashion brand Marimekko is being celebrated in Japan with a traveling exhibition that is now about to open at The Bunkamura Museum of Art. This Tokyo edition of the event will be the largest of all the ...
Sexual assault warrant issued for ex-Grand Hyatt exec who left Japan
A former general manager of the Grand Hyatt Tokyo is facing arrest over his suspected sexual assault on a female customer in a bathroom at the upscale hotel in central Tokyo in May, police sources said Tuesday. But Antonio Alvarez, a 45-year-old Spaniard who assumed ...
Students from an international school participated Thursday in a Christmas-season fundraising event by a Tokyo hotel that is supporting children in the Tohoku region affected by the March 2011 disasters. Thirty second- and third-graders from Nishimachi International School in Minato Ward made Christmas ornaments at ...
